Post by cooksferry on Oct 12, 2020 9:08:20 GMT 12
Never come across any laser discs in my travels but buried away in a 2nd hand shop in Palmerston my son spotted several sets, The Prisoner, Lost in Space( 2 thick boxes) and voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
For any collectors the shop is called Trash Collectors. 
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Post by foveaux on Oct 12, 2020 9:25:24 GMT 12For any collectors the shop is called Trash Collectors. Yay!  - "Danger Will Robinson!" ...literally, yahaha  "I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]
"Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young" [Paul Rodgers]
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Post by cartridgeguyonline on Oct 12, 2020 12:24:37 GMT 12
Im sure im not the only one who feels cheated, but hey its 2020 now, shouldnt we all be living on Mars and flying to work in jet cars ? What happened ?
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Post by michaelw on Oct 12, 2020 13:05:44 GMT 12
laserdiscs were state-of-the-art home theatre in the late 1980s, up through to the late 1990s.
standard definition picture, better than VHS but less than DVD with a variety of sound formats from analogue to cd quality pcm digital to dolby digital, dts. they were sort after by film fans as a good albeit expensive source of films in widescreen, mostly letterboxed 4x3. the last generation of laserdisc bought forth high definition discs and players capable of playing the japanese analogue muse high definition system. the laserdisc format was hampered by cost, new movies sold for between $25-40 usd, their physical size and it didn't record. cue dvd.
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Post by cooksferry on Oct 12, 2020 13:53:10 GMT 12
A couple of the sets I listed appear to be of japanese origin going by the printing on the boxes. Would have liked a better look but time and the difficulty in getting them out worked against that.
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Post by Owen Y on Oct 12, 2020 20:56:20 GMT 12
I have a box of LDs which I could not manage to give away to michaelw
 eg. Some nice Japanese-produced European orchestral concerts. Free to any home. DarkLantern blog - darklanternforowen.wordpress.com
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Post by michaelw on Oct 12, 2020 21:41:48 GMT 12
i still have most of mine which i couldn't give away either
 i watched eisenstein's alexander nevsky on ld a few weeks ago, then a bluray rip of battleship potemkin. it didn't render the nevsky ld unwatchable but the switch from analogue to digital video only reaped benefits for film fans.
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